Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens will be allowed to vote in next week’s election, despite having been convicted of multiple felonies in federal court. “I have not been convicted of anything,” he maintained during a Thursday night debate in Anchorage, only days before Tuesday’s election.
I don’t believe in taking cheap shots. But it’s Halloween.
Laptop Magazine tested Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H. And just as Microsoft said: it works.
The Eee PC running a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM handles the new operating system pretty well, just as it ran Vista pretty well when we loaded Vista Basic [...]
Sprint Nextel is targeting parents of trick-or-treaters by halving the price of its GPS-based child-locating service. Starting today, parents can now use Sprint Family Locator, including recent enhancements, for just $5 per month.
Sprint Family Locator allows parents to view the location of their children from a Web-enabled phone or computer. Sprint has [...]
Consumer advocacy group, Free Press says don’t be frightened by their fear-mongering message that our TVs will never be the same if some broadcast channels are used for high-speed Internet.
Lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about “white spaces” — vacant TV channels that [...]
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday gave the green light on the merger of Alltel with Verizon Wireless. Alltel, the 5th largest wireless provider in the United States, would then become a part of Verizon Wireless, the 2nd largest (after AT&T). The merger should then make Verizon the largest U.S. cellular carrier with some 80 [...]
After failing to find a buyer for its Nextel cellphone unit, Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will hold on to the Nextel and renew their long-term partnership with Motorola, reports the WS Journal.
“The iDEN network is a key differentiator for Sprint, as it allows us to offer products and services no other [...]
Succumbing to a swirling dust storm and the cold of an encroaching Martian winter, the Phoenix Mars lander fell quiet for a day, before coming back to life Thursday evening, albeit weakly, says the NY Times. The lander successfully communicated with the Mars Odyssey orbiter Thursday evening.
The Phoenix Lander landed in May, during spring [...]
Laptop-makers including Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 Sony-made batteries due to fears they may overheat or catch fire.
The recall affects around 74,000 HP laptops, 14,400 from Toshiba, and small numbers from Dell, Acer and Lenovo. Sony said the recall came after 40 instances of overheating, including four cases where users had minor burns.
Sony said [...]
Unstrung reports that AT&T is following Verizon Wireless down the femtocell path with a home base station trial planned for later this year.
Femtocells are tiny cellular radios that plug into a user’s existing DSL or cable modem service and improve wireless coverage in the home.
AT&T is the last of the big three cellular [...]
Phone company FairPoint Communications says Vermonters will get statewide fixed WiMAX, in what appears to be the largest planned U.S. deployment of “fixed wireless” technology yet.
FairPoint has 300,000 phone customers in Vermont, most of whom it acquired from Verizon Communications this year. Three-quarters of them will have access to broadband by the end of the [...]
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